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What disappointment has stayed with you longest?Originally asked
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View all 367 →Not playing Stanley Kowalski in A Streetcar Named Desire. I am a huge Brando fan and a big Tennessee Williams fan and it’s a part I would love to have a go at. It’s possible I still could but I’m too old, really.
The Covid years. My life is diminished since then. I lost my brother. My children lost some social expression, and we are still recovering from that.
I was very sorry to stop at two children – I would have liked to have had a third – and I am very sorry to have got divorced.
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An angina attack 300 metres below the summit ridge of Everest in 2005, having spent 72 days getting that far.
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Some of my old teachers for disrupting lessons. I was the class clown.
Getting a house. I didn’t think that was a possibility for me. I’ve been able to do amazing things – Netflix, tours, winning a Bafta – but having something you own is hard, so that’s really up there.
Material. I wake up in the middle of the night and write jokes.
Handing out leaflets for a dry cleaner’s, because no one wanted them and, if people did take them, they just threw them on the floor.
I don’t think I would change anything because it might not have got me here.
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